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JOYCE, James Augustine Aloysius (1882-1941). Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922.
4° (238 x 185mm). (Light marginal browning, small dampstain in inner margin of first few leaves.) Original 'Greek flag' blue and white printed wrappers, uncut (rebacked preserving the original spine, browned, folds repaired, some colour restoration), modern blue morocco-backed box.
FIRST EDITION, IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, limited to 1,000 copies, number 988 of 750 copies on handmade paper. Joyce asked that the wrappers of Ulysses be printed in the Greek colours (white on a blue field), as he considered the colours lucky for him, and they also 'suggested the myth of Greece and of Homer, the white island rising from the sea' (Ellman, p.524). The precise shade caused the binders problems, and a sample was eventually mixed for their use by Joyce's friend, the artist Myron Nutting. Connolly The Modern Movement 42; Ellman James Joyce Oxford, 1983; Slocum & Cahoon A17.
4° (238 x 185mm). (Light marginal browning, small dampstain in inner margin of first few leaves.) Original 'Greek flag' blue and white printed wrappers, uncut (rebacked preserving the original spine, browned, folds repaired, some colour restoration), modern blue morocco-backed box.
FIRST EDITION, IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, limited to 1,000 copies, number 988 of 750 copies on handmade paper. Joyce asked that the wrappers of Ulysses be printed in the Greek colours (white on a blue field), as he considered the colours lucky for him, and they also 'suggested the myth of Greece and of Homer, the white island rising from the sea' (Ellman, p.524). The precise shade caused the binders problems, and a sample was eventually mixed for their use by Joyce's friend, the artist Myron Nutting. Connolly The Modern Movement 42; Ellman James Joyce Oxford, 1983; Slocum & Cahoon A17.
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